Finzi: Intimations of Immortality

Gerald Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, Op. 29

Andante sostenuto

There was a time when meadow, grove and stream

The Rainbow comes and goes

Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song

Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call

Oh evil day! If I were sullen

But there's a Tree, of many, one

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own

Oh joy! That in our embers

But for those first affections

Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!

And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves
Gerald Finzi: For St. Cecilia, Op. 30

Delightful Goddess, in whose fashionings

Changed is the age; mysterious, man's next star

How came you, lady of fierce martyrdom

How smilingly the saint among her friends

Wherefore we bid you to the full concent